Healing After Loss Quotes

“...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief

“Sometimes when I am feeling down, I am my own worst enemy. Let me be my friend.”
― Martha W. Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. —ELIE WIESEL”
― Martha W. Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“O God, your sea is so great and my boat is so small. Be with me.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“This is the only day I have for sure. May I use it well.”
― Martha W. Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Sometimes the long view is not what I need. I need this moment, without hostage to past or future, experienced for itself alone.”
― Martha W. Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Somehow we feel the earth should stop spinning and acknowledge our grief.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“It is a bittersweet joy, but real nonetheless—the way our lost loves are forever in our hearts and minds. They are, in fact, constant to our consciousness in a way they couldn’t be when they were alive, because then we depended on their comings and goings—the highs and lows of their being with us, the vagaries of presence and convenience. But”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can’t build on it. It is only for wallowing in. —KATHERINE MANSFIELD”
― Martha W. Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“will take a small step—just one. In my mind’s eye, perhaps I can see my loved one nodding in encouragement—“Yes. Go on. You can. I am with you.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“In time, we will be helpers for others.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can’t build on it. It is only for wallowing in.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“What is essential does not die but clarifies,” wrote Thornton Wilder. And again, “The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.” Eventually, we will find our way through this particular “valley of the shadow,” and while there may always be a tinge of sadness, there will come a sense of our own inner strength and our ability to rejoice in the life we have shared, and to look toward a future in which the loved one, though not physically present, continues to bless us.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Though the loved one has died, the memory, the sense of the person’s presence, has not—nor the possibility, after a while, of taking continuing joy not only in the reminiscences from the past, but in the extension of the person’s spirit into our ongoing lives.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“In the extremity of darkness I will look up and see the stars.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“What is promised is that those with the courage to mourn will find, in the wake of mourning, a strange blessing: that after the sadness is expressed, the pain released into the accepting air, it is as though some love at the heart of life wraps its arms around the mourner and says, There, there, I am with you, I hear you, I understand. Everything’s going to be all right.”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery

“So maybe the experience of loss not only helps clarify what is important to us, but also helps us know where we are and the direction in which we want to go.   In”
― Martha Whitmore Hickman, Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Grief Recovery